Report of Governor Grover to General Schofield on the Modoc War (Classic Reprint)
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Bancroft Library GOVERNOR GROVERS LETTER TO GMEIST. SC HO FIELD ON THE MODOC WAE. To Major General J. M. Schofield, Commanding Military Division of the Pacific :SIR In reply to jour communication of June 4, 1873, in which you request that I will cause a muster roll of the forces called out by me to be properly certified to, and forwarded to your headquarters, and also to state if those troops were called out at the invitation or solicitation, or by the authority of any military officer of the United States, and if any such officer, by any act or promise has in any manner committed the United States to liability for transportation, forage, subsistence, clothing, equipage, etc.
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Report of Governor Grover to General Schofield on the Modoc War: and reports of Major General John F. Miller and General John E. Ross, to the Governor ... on the Wallowa Valley Indian question
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La Fayette Grover was a lawyer, politician, manufacturer, a Democratic politician from Oregon, United States.
Background
La Fayette Grover was born in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine on November 29, 1823, son of Dr. John Grover and Fanny (Lary) Grover. He was a descendant of Thomas Grover who came to Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1642; a grandson of John, a Revolutionary soldier, and Jerusha Wiley Grover; and a brother of General Cuvier Grover.
Education
La Fayette Grover attended Gould’s Academy, Bethel, and had the advantage of two years’ college work at Bowdoin College, 1844-1846.
He studied law under Asa I. Fish at Philadelphia, where he was admitted to the bar in March 1850.
Career
In 1850 La Fayette Grover moved by the gold excitement, La Fayette Grover shipped around the Horn for California whence he proceeded in August 1851 to Oregon where he had a conspicuous career as a public man.
He was first appointed clerk of the United States district court at Salem, then prosecuting attorney of the second judicial district. He was also auditor of accounts with the general duties of secretary to the legislature. In that capacity he edited a volume of documents, The Oregon Archives selected from the archives of the Provisional Government. This is commonly referred to as “Grover’s Oregon Archives. ”
It is a useful work, but he omitted a number of significant items, and committed numerous errors in dating, placing, and transcribing those printed, so that the edition leaves much to be desired on the score of accuracy.
In 1853 and 1855 Grover was elected a member of the territorial legislature, and in 1854-56, by appointment of the Interior and War Departments, he was auditor of claims growing out of the Rogue River Indian War and the Indian wars of Washington and Oregon.
He was a member of the Oregon constitutional convention in 1857 and was a representative from Oregon in the Thirty-fifth Congress, in which he served seventeen days. From 1866 to 1870 La Fayette Grover was chairman of the Democratic state committee, and in 1870 was elected governor, being reelected in 1874. He resigned February 1, 1877, and, by election of the legislature, became a United States senator from Oregon, March 8, 1877, serving one term.
Grover was a man of keen, alert mentality, and of excellent training in the law, but his public career is marred by acts of extreme partisanship which made him for many years both feared and hated in Oregon. An example is his attempt as governor to certificate one Democrat as elector in 1876-77.
This move, if it had succeeded, would have elected Tilden president. The point at issue was the disqualification of one of the three Republican candidates for presidential elector, John W. Watts, because he was a postmaster.
Grover contended that this justified him in certifying E. A. Cronin, a Democrat, the next highest on the list of candidates. Despite the well-known provision of law enabling the electors of a state to fill by appointment such vacancies as may occur in their number, Grover prepared an extended brief supporting his view of the case, which was, of course, reversed by the electoral commission.
During the controversy Governor Grover was in danger of mob violence, and when he appeared soon afterward in the United States Senate to take the oath of office he encountered petitions against his seating on the ground of corruption in the election. This opposition he readily overcame and served respectably during his senatorial term.
His governorship, however, is the most outstanding feature of his career.
In his period, 1871-77, the state was just emerging from the pioneer stage of its existence and, with one transcontinental railroad completed, was anticipating extraordinary development. Grover realized that such expectations were often illusory and, in any event, that a highly speculative scheme of promotion was dangerous.
For a number of years he was prominent as a woolen manufacturer in Salem.
Later he lost his fortune and, old age coming on, he spent the remaining days of his life in such humble retirement that he was almost completely forgotten by the succeeding generation.
His death occurred in Portland, and he was buried in Riverview Cemetery.
Grover was a man of keen, alert mentality, and of excellent training in the law. Those who knew him well describe him as a genial, intelligent, and well-read gentleman of many attractive qualities.
Connections
La Fayette Grover was married in 1865 to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Carter of Portland.